playing the waiting game

Took the car into the holden dealers in thames,had a little orange annoying light on the dash,"piece of cake" says the service manager, well if it was a piece of cake who put it there?
Turns out it was a slit pipe that picked up fuel flow so wasn't working too well,never mind it's only money!
While i was killing time we went into town,it didn't take me long to get sick of going into shops so amused myself with looking to see how many cars had expired registrations.
In one section of road i counted 9 cars,6 of them had no reg! Absouletly gaurantee that if one of them was mine a bllody parking warden would have come along and smacked a ticket on the screen!
No bloody justice in this world!

getting lots done

Had a fairly productive morning so far,been for a ride a then managed to do a few repairs around the place,mainly lubricating doors,hinges,padlocks etc. the salty atmosphere gets into anything metallic and rusts real fast.
I've been selling a bit of junk on trademe lately,it's amazing what some people will pay for something that i would normally have thrown out!

where has the year gone?

August 09!
yikes! where has the year gone! just looked in here and see it was december since my last entry.
Had a great xmas,nice and busy!
We went to Fiji again in march and had a bloody awesome time. the weather was superb and the staff brilliant,we sure love fiji.
Check out my www.webshots.com site for pics. search divaferg.
The highlight for me this year and indeed for my life was my trip to france to watch the Tour De France.Words cannot describe the thrill it was for me.you can see pictures of that here .http://www.flickr.com/photos/whangapouastore/
In June we went up to spend a week with Michele and Graeme at their farm,while we were there we went to have a look at their section that will one day soon house the beach bach,great spot.
At Michele's we did a lot of trail riding,Diane had a ball and managed to get thru the week without major damage!
Winter has been very quiet this year,blame that on the newspapers and talk of recession.
We are counting down the days untill our trip to Vanuatu.Kevin and leslie are travelling with us and we are all soooo looking forward to it.

what have we been doing?

So much has happened in the last few weeks. first,while diane was visiting her mum i went for a ride up castle rock and as i was going down a steep section i arsed off!
I landed on my left wrist and did some good damage!.My arm has been in plaster ever since.....
Thats all i need at this time of the year. we have been flat out in the shop stocking up for xmas,we are running out of space already.
more updates as time allows.

catch up

Diane spent a few days in gisborne visiting her mum and tash.
I went on a trail ride in Paeroa on sunday,Diane went fishing last night and caught nuffink!

FISHING

Julia and Diane decided to go out for a fish on tuesday arvo,they got some nice snapper to 11ib,then decided to come home,the motor packed up so they called out whangapoua rescue(me and joe)we towed them into the beach and left them to it. then they got the trailerstuck,and swamped the boat!

chopper ride

On tuesday evening we got to have a scenic tour in a helicopter,what a buzz! we went out to cuvier then around the mercs then over the coast along black jacks/opito bay.
great weather made it even more special.pics to follow.